[Tagging] Suggestions for the correct tagging of Field borders

[Dudley Ibbett]

Hi

I'm trying to work out exactly how a generic "field" would be mapped using this new tag.  I am assuming you would have a way that marks the field boundary and in many cases this would be tagged with the barrier=fence/wall/hedge.  This is what much or my mapping currently consists of.   What is enclosed by the field boundary is arguably the "field" but it seems the use of landuse=field for such an area isn't encouraged where the wiki is concerned.  With this new tag presumably you would mark out any areas of "field margin" with any appropriate additional tag to describe what is in the field margin.  The area left within the "field" would then be tagged with the "crop". 

 Field margins have a much "tighter" definition in the UK, most likely due to the use 
of payments to encourage farmers to create these for conservation 
purposes.   Wood and scrub wouldn't fall under this definition, nor would hedges so I wouldn't be keen to see these additional tags used.  Hedges vary considerably in size around where I live depending on whether they are cut regularly or not but they are still hedges and not field margins.  Natural tree rows are also found quite commonly along rivers and streams that form field boundaries.  natural=tree_row fits with this feature as they are not field margins.

Would it not be better to have a "tighter" definition of this particular "field" feature when it comes to the use of any additional tags?

Kind Regards

Dudley
Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2014 16:11:49 +0200
From: mail at simon-wuellhorst.de
To: tagging at openstreetmap.org
Subject: Re: [Tagging] Suggestions for the correct tagging of Field borders

Hello,thanks for your feedback. I created a proposed features page for fieldmargins where I wrote down my ideas about this topic. https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/fieldmargin 

Please give me feedback (here or on the wikipage) to improve this propose.
Greetings,Simon

2014-07-05 19:00 GMT+02:00 Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdreist at gmail.com>:





> Am 05/lug/2014 um 11:08 schrieb Simon Wüllhorst <mail at simon-wuellhorst.de>:

>

> Is a proposal-page in the wiki needed?







It is Not strictly needed (you can use the tag straight away), but it is recommended in order to have some documentation remaining. I'd also suggest to put a link (see also) on landuse farmland





cheers,

Martin

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